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It just keeps getting funnier and funnier. I really don't know whether to laugh or cry, but the laughing part keeps winning out! LOL!!
Woman needs to move to another country, change her identity and forget this ever happened. I could never show my face to people I interact with daily if caught up in a lie like this.
Trying to read through pages and pages of this since I last read, I wonder if some (many?) people of African American ancestry find this woman's actions insulting? It's one thing to have empathy, and to work for a common good. It's another to pretend to have walked in someone else's shoes when you haven't.
Trying to read through pages and pages of this since I last read, I wonder if some (many?) people of African American ancestry find this woman's actions insulting? It's one thing to have empathy, and to work for a common good. It's another to pretend to have walked in someone else's shoes when you haven't.
Surely there are many. This woman has the ability to "turn off" her blackness when she wants. If tomorrow she decides to go live in a white yuppie suburb - she can be accepted and receive all the "advantages" of being white. For most that are actually black, they don't have this option. It's like someone that fakes being handicapped to receive government assistance/scholarships/parking spaces, etc. If I'm truly confined to a wheelchair, I'd find the faker offensive - they can change their mind if things get tough and live in the able bodied world.
If I'm black, out of respect to those born into the struggle, I'd want this woman to apologize and stop the charade.
You've already told us, though, that your parents were always exceptional. As a military brat, my own upbringing was less common--because only a tiny minority of kids are military brats. You and I both have to recognize that our personal experiences are not representative of what was going on overall.
Right but personal experiences also teach us things, and one of the things it taught me is a lesson that every child of our generation was exposed to and that is that we shouldn't judge people by the color of their skin, but instead by the content of their character.
Personal experience taught me that we should take responsibility for our own actions. That's another pretty common sense lesson.
Maturity taught me that a victim mentality is detrimental to one's overall wellbeing and interpersonal relationships - not to mention irritating to others. More common sense - nothing exceptional.
Another unexceptional lesson that I learned - one that is the core of many civilizations over the expanse of time - was "Treat others like you want to be treated yourself."
And here's another unexceptional lesson - "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
You just apply these principles - none of which are particularly unusual - to all relationships in your life and guess what - race relations become pretty uncomplicated and relationships in general become a lot less fraught with drama.
Right but personal experiences also teach us things, and one of the things it taught me is a lesson that every child of our generation was exposed to and that is that we shouldn't judge people by the color of their skin, but instead by the content of their character.
And the point I was making is that the bulk of the Boomer Generation was taught precisely the opposite...and that we are the last generation that got that social lesson.
O.k. say she apologizes and steps down for her position in the NAACP/University can she still identify as being Black? If a man can identify as a woman or a woman a man why can`t someone say White or Asian identify as African-American?
The left is trying to get rid of this woman as fast as they can. The last thing they want is to see is the government racial spoils system potentially open to manipulation.
And the point I was making is that the bulk of the Boomer Generation was taught precisely the opposite...and that we are the last generation that got that social lesson.
And the point I was making is that any Baby Boomer who didn't hear that lesson had to have had their head buried in the sand.
...This woman has the ability to "turn off" her blackness when she wants. If tomorrow she decides to go live in a white yuppie suburb - she can be accepted and receive all the "advantages" of being white. For most that are actually black, they don't have this option.
Yes, but say an African-American or Asian-American decides he or she strongly identifies as being White?
Shouldn't they be allowed to regardless of what we think?
Yes, but say an African-American or Asian-American decides he or she strongly identifies as being White?
Shouldn't they be allowed to regardless of what we think?
Oh my gosh. Do people still not get what has folks torqued off about this woman? It's not that she self identifies as African American - it's that she has lied about her ethnic background, her childhood, her parents, her upbringing, her "son," her "father," her alleged abuse and the alleged hate crimes against her.
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